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Psalms 119:159

Consider how I love your precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to your lovingkindness.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
157. And he commendeth himself as differing from them, and saith, "Behold, how I have loved Thy commandments" (ver. 159). He saith not, I have not denied Thy words or testimonies, as the Martyrs were urged to do, and, when they refused, suffered intolerable torments: but he said this wherein is the fruit of all sufferings; for, "if I give up my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." The Psalmist, praising this virtue, saith, "Behold, how I have loved Thy commandments." Then he asketh his reward, "O Lord, quicken me, according to Thy mercy." These put me to death, do Thou quicken me. But if a reward be asked of mercy, which justice is bound to give; how much greater is that mercy, which enabled him to gain the victory, on account of which the reward was sought for?

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Behold. A person may profess his innocence without arrogance.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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